ISBN:
9780807834411
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (406 p)
Series Statement:
The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture
Series Statement:
The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture Ser. v.16
Parallel Title:
Print version The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture : Volume 16: Sports and Recreation
DDC:
975.003
Keywords:
Leisure -- Social aspects -- Southern States -- Encyclopedias
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Popular culture -- Southern States -- Encyclopedias
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Recreation -- Southern States -- Encyclopedias
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Sports -- Southern States -- Encyclopedias
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Southern States -- Social life and customs -- Encyclopedias
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Volume 16: Sports and Recreation
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Contents; General Introduction; Introduction; LEISURE, SPORTS, AND ALL SORTS OF RECREATION; All-Day Singings; Amusement and Theme Parks; Baseball; Basketball; Beaches; Beaches, Black, Jim Crow Era; Blood Sports; Boxing; Buck Dancing, Flatfooting, and Clogging; Card Parties; Cheerleading and Twirling; Children's Games, Traditional; Civil War Reenactments; Cockfighting; Debutantes; Drinking; Fairs; Family Reunions; Festivals; Festivals, Music; Fiddle Contests; Field Trials; Fireballing; Fishing; Football, College; Football, High School; Football, Professional; Football Traditions
Description / Table of Contents:
Fox HuntingGambling; Gardening; Golf; Holidays; Horses; House Parties; Hunting; Juke Joints and Honky-Tonks; Line Dancing; Marching Bands; Marching Bands, HBCU; Mardi Gras; Noodling; Passing the Time; Pets; Picking Sessions; Pool Checkers; Porch Sitting; Quail Hunting; Quinceañeras; Rafting and Canoeing; Resorts; Restaurants; Ring Shouts; Ring Tournaments; Rock Climbing; Rodeo; Running; Shopping; Soccer; Square Dancing; Stepping; Stock Car Racing; Storytelling; Tennis; Tourism; Tourism, Automobile; Tourism, Culinary; Tourism, Cultural; Traveling Shows; Two Stepping; Visiting; Water Skiing
Description / Table of Contents:
WhittlingWrestling; Aaron, Hank; Ali, Muhammad; Annual Interstate Mullet Toss; Appalachian Trail; Ashe, Arthur; Atkins, Leah Marie Rawls; Atlantic Beach, South Carolina; Big Bend National Park; Blue Ridge Parkway; Bowden, Bobby; Bryant, Paul "Bear"; Busch Gardens; Case, Everett; Casinos, Mississippi; Christmas; Cobb, Ty; Colonial Williamsburg; Daytona 500; Dean, "Dizzy"; Disney World; Dogpatch USA; Dollywood; Drive-in Theaters; Earnhardt, Dale; Easter; Everglades National Park; Evert, Chris; Favre, Brett; Flora-Bama Lounge and Package; Fourth of July; Gibson, Althea; Gilley's; Graceland
Description / Table of Contents:
Great Smoky Mountains National ParkHamm, Mia; Hilton Head Island, South Carolina; Hooters; Hot Springs National Park; Johnson, Junior; Jones, Bobby; Jordan, Michael; Jubilees; Juneteenth; Kentucky Derby; Lambert's Café; Louisiana State Lottery Company; Mammoth Cave National Park; Manning Family; Maravich, Pete; Mid-South Wrestling; Myrtle Beach, South Carolina; NASCAR; Negro Baseball Leagues; Paige, Satchel; Petty, Richard; Prison Rodeos; Redneck Riviera; Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail; Robinson, Eddie; Rupp, Adolph Frederick; St. Cecilia Ball; Seaside, Florida; "See Rock City"; Showboats
Description / Table of Contents:
Silver Dollar CitySmith, Dean; South by Southwest; South of the Border; Spoleto Festival USA; Stabler, Ken "Kenny" Michael (aka "Snake"); Summitt, Pat; Talladega Superspeedway; Texas Western vs. Kentucky; Toasts and Dozens; Walker, Herschel; Womanless Weddings; Zaharias, Mildred "Babe" Didrikson; Index of Contributors; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; V; W; Y; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z
Note:
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